Just picked up a "new to me" 2011 Genesis 4.6

[BeastMaster]

Hello everyone. I just bought a 2011 Genesis 4.6, and I have to say that I am loving it. I drive about 500 miles a week for work, and I was using a Mini Cooper S as my daily driver, but keeping it on the road was getting expensive. In the 8 months I owned the Mini, I spent about $2000 fixing it, and the timing chain tensioner was getting ready to blow.

The Genesis has 75k miles on the clock, and it still runs like a new car. I enjoy driving it enough to take my mind off of the car in my garage, a 2007 E60 M5. Prior to the Mini, the M5 was my daily driver. After putting 13k miles on the M5 in 6 months and only getting about 14 MPG, I decided I could buy a second car with the money I save on gas. The Mini was a bad choice. Hopefully the Genesis will serve me better.

I only received one Smart Key with the car, so I bought a replacement from www.replacemyremote.com for $80 and had it programmed by Pop-A-Lock for $110.

Here are a couple pictures of my Genesis and my M5.

 

[AgentSmith007]

Welcome to the club!

 

[unknown_owner]

Hello everyone. I just bought a 2011 Genesis 4.6, and I have to say that I am loving it. I drive about 500 miles a week for work, and I was using a Mini Cooper S as my daily driver, but keeping it on the road was getting expensive. In the 8 months I owned the Mini, I spent about $2000 fixing it, and the timing chain tensioner was getting ready to blow.

The Genesis has 75k miles on the clock, and it still runs like a new car. I enjoy driving it enough to take my mind off of the car in my garage, a 2007 E60 M5. Prior to the Mini, the M5 was my daily driver. After putting 13k miles on the M5 in 6 months and only getting about 14 MPG, I decided I could buy a second car with the money I save on gas. The Mini was a bad choice. Hopefully the Genesis will serve me better.

I only received one Smart Key with the car, so I bought a replacement from www.replacemyremote.com for $80 and had it programmed by Pop-A-Lock for $110.

Here are a couple pictures of my Genesis and my M5.

Welcome. Question for you BeastMaster, when you get a chance can you test your bluetooth audio streaming from you cellphone and let me know if that works? Thanks

 

[Youseethefight]

M5 is sweeeeeeeet!!!! i wanted an M5 but got a genesis 5.0 r-spec instead. the poor mans M5

 

[BeastMaster]

Welcome. Question for you BeastMaster, when you get a chance can you test your bluetooth audio streaming from you cellphone and let me know if that works? Thanks

I tried, and can't find any settings in the radio for BT streaming. I think I am going to hard wire an aux cable so I don't have wires running everywhere.

 

[BeastMaster]

M5 is sweeeeeeeet!!!! i wanted an M5 but got a genesis 5.0 r-spec instead. the poor mans M5

Thanks. It doesn't ride as nice as the Genesis though.

 

[homeofstone]

We purchased our 2011 4.6 Genesis in Sept. 2010. We now have 182,000 miles on it and love it still. It still rides and drives like new. I am thinking of going for 300k miles.

 

[DavidHanLee]

Mother flipping garage goals there.

Good choice on getting rid of the Mini while you could.

 

[unknown_owner]

I tried, and can't find any settings in the radio for BT streaming. I think I am going to hard wire an aux cable so I don't have wires running everywhere.

It should under the phone option, not radio.

 

[geops]

Wasn't BT Streaming added in 2013?

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[dmitriylm]

My 2010 4.6 allows for bluetooth calling but not bluetooth audio streaming. I have a bluetooth adapter attached to the aux input inside the center console which works great.

Nice pickup and the M5 looks great as well! I had an E60 530i which drove great but was a good bit smaller than the Genesis and far less reliable.

 

[Jaeger]

Congrats on the Genesis - that's my fave colour of that generation. Awesome M5.

 

[BeastMaster]

Nice pickup and the M5 looks great as well! I had an E60 530i which drove great but was a good bit smaller than the Genesis and far less reliable.

Thanks! You're right about reliability. BMW builds temperamental cars that should never be owned outside the warranty period. There are some things I hate about the M5, but they are mostly outweighed by the ride. She does things that a 4000 pound car shouldn't do. With over 500 hp on tap, and an 8300 RPM redline, she sings like an opera singer. With the full leather option, every square inch of the inside of the car is leather...dashboard, door panels, seats. There is no plastic anywhere, and the headliner is Alcantara. The heads up display spoils me with turn-by-turn directions, current speed, and RPM. This all outweighs the jerky shifting at low speed, SMG single-clutch auto-shift manual transmission that actually takes practice to drive. It also makes me forget about how I have to hook up a laptop to the car a couple times a year to clear the ELV CAS so that the car doesn't go on lockdown for what it thinks is a bad electronic steering column lock. Oh, the things we do for our passions. The Mini was a diva too and I could not tolerate two divas. The Hyundai is a joy to drive every day, and I always know it's going to start. That's what I needed as a daily driver.

 

[BeastMaster]

Congrats on the Genesis - that's my fave colour of that generation. Awesome M5.

Thanks!

 

[westvibes]

Congrats on your new ride!